Title & Author:

Toward a simpler way of life : the arts & crafts architects of California / edited by Robert Winter.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997.

Description:

310 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
"A Norfleet Press book."
"A Norfleet Press book".
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-302) and index.
Introduction : the myth of California expressed in arts and crafts theory / Robert Winter -- A.C. Schweinfurth / Edward R. Bosley -- Ernest Coxhead / Jeremy Kotas -- John Galen Howard / Joan Draper -- Louis Christian Mullgardt / Robert Judson Clark -- Bernard Maybeck / Jeffrey W. Limerick -- Julia Morgan / Sara Holmes Boutelle -- Henry Gutterson / Susan Dinkelspiel Cerny -- John Hudson Thomas / Thomas Gordon Smith -- William Raymond Yelland / Lauren Weiss Bricker -- Francis T. Underhill / David Gebhard -- Frederick Louis Roehrig / Robert Winter -- Charles and Henry Greene / Randall L. Makinson --Arthur S. and Alfred Heineman / Robert Winter -- Louis B. Easton / Tim Andersen -- Elmer Grey / David Gebhard -- Sylvanus B. Marston / Edward R. Bosley -- Sumner P. Hunt ; Arthur B. Benton / Karen J. Weitze -- Irving J. Gill / David Gebhard -- Emmonr Brooke Weaver / Alexander D. Bevil -- Hazel Wood Waterman / Sally Bullard Thornton-- Frank Mead and Richard Requa / Lucinda Eddy -- William W. Wurster / Daniel Gregory -- Charles Warren Callister / Sally B. Woodbridge -- Joseph Esherick / Daniel Gregory -- Harwell H. Harris / David Gebhard -- Cliff May / David Bricker -- Calvin Straub (Buff, Staub, and Hensman) / Shelly Kappe.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"This book celebrates one of the richest and most enduring themes in American architecture--California's Arts and Crafts Movement. Echoing the writings of Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles F. Lummis, and Charles Keeler, this movement represented a retreat into a quieter place from the materialism of American society. Anti-commercial, anti-modern, Arts and Crafts practitioners drew on the decorative schemes of English Tudor, Swiss chalet, Japanese temple, and Spanish mission, evoking an earlier time before modern industry and technology intruded. And if only one word is used to describe virtually every Arts and Crafts house in California, that word is "woodsy": wood shingles outside, wood paneling inside, a wood fire burning in the homey, welcoming fireplace. Most chapters in this impressive and very readable book focus on one building by a particular architect or designer and illustrate that person's development and influences. Familiar architects such as Bernard Maybeck, Charles and Henry Greene, John Galen Howard, and Julia Morgan are here, but so too are less well-known names who were a vibrant part of the Arts and Crafts Movement. These late Romantics designed houses to complement nature rather than contrast with it. Their eclecticism and historicism reflected a Romantic bent as well, no doubt cultivated by their familiarity with the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where, in fact, Howard, Maybeck, and Morgan studied. The book's contributors also give attention to the builders, contractors, and craftsmen whose skills contributed to the lasting impact of the California Arts and Crafts Movement. Superb illustrations provide examples of elevations, composition details, interior fixtures, and gardens, all designed to promote the "simple living and high thinking" of the Craftsman style, an esthetic that continues to influence architecture today."--Amazon.com.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520209168 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520209169 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520210468
9780520210462

Subject:

Architecture California History 19th century.
Architecture California History.
Arts and crafts movement California.
Architecture Californie.
Arts and crafts movement Californie.
Architecture Californie Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture Californie Histoire.
Architecture
Arts and crafts movement
Architekt
Architektur
Biografie
Architecture California.
Architecture, Modern 19th century California.
Architecture, Modern 20th century California.
Arts and crafts.
Architecture 19e siècle États-Unis Californie (États-Unis)
Architecture 20e siècle États-Unis Californie (États-Unis)
Biographie.
Architecture California 19th century
Architecture California 20th century
California
Kalifornien

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Winter, Robert, 1924-2019.
Winter, Robert, 1924-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193897
Call No.: ID NA730.C2.T68; ID:97-B493
Status: Available